Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans.
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
I’m trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.
But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women’s art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I’m resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
I think what I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.